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Outside Magazine May 2002
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Destinations: National Parks
The Best of the Rest (Cont.)

GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK
Moose, Wyoming / 309,995 acres
CLIMB ten-pitch, 5.7-rated Serendipity Arete on 12,928-foot Mount Owen and get jaw-dropping views of the Grand Teton's southwest face. Bonus: The full-day hike in to Valhalla Canyon keeps the rock-monkey masses at bay.
307-739-3300, www.nps.gov/grte

GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK
Baker, Nevada / 77,180 acres
Spend two days BACKPACKING the glacier-carved highlands. From Baker Creek Trail, head south across the isolated ridgelines of Mount Washington (11,676 feet) and Lincoln Peak (11,597 feet), then into Decathon Canyon. You'll need good navigation skills—there are few trails—and enough sense to take cover during storms.
775-234-7331, www.nps.gov/grba

GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Salt Flat, Texas / 86,416 acres
HIKE the steep (you gain 3,000 feet), rugged Guadalupe Peak Trail to the highest point in Texas—8,749-foot Guadalupe Peak—for hundred-mile views of the West Texas canyonlands. It's an eight-mile round-trip. Go in April and May, when the cacti are in bloom.
915-828-3251, www.nps.gov/gumo

HALEAKALA NATIONAL PARK
Makawao, Hawaii / 29,830 acres
The two-day, 18.4-mile end-to-end HIKE on the Sliding Sands and Kaupo Gap Trails takes you from the barren Haleakala summit, at 6,380 feet, through four wildly different ecosystems to the verdant oceanside hamlet of Kaupo (elevation 240 feet) outside the park. Hard on the knees—but worth it.
808-572-4400, www.nps.gov/hale


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